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We are taking part in Offprint London this weekend! From Friday, May 17, through Sunday, May 19, Page Not Found will have a table in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall presenting our own publishing endeavours as well as self-published projects by our close collaborators! Hope to see you there!  

We kindly thank The Mondriaan Fond for making this participation possible.

If you’re curious about the possibilities of graphic design, join us for a live session with three talented designers, who will show you what your text can become. Co-curated with Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak, this Typographic Night session will host:

Cleo Tsw is a Singapore-born designer, writer, and editor based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She also runs Off Course, a publishing imprint concerned with cross-genre reading and writing.

Elliott Cost (born 1991, Maui, HI, USA) is an artist, designer, and programmer based in the Netherlands.He is currently working on “File Life Tours, a tour company and travel blog dedicated to letting go of files, giving them a new life in the mountains and the oceans, Previously, he was a designer at Bloomberg News and Kickstarter’s The Creative independent. He co-founded HTML Energy, a movement about returning to the source; built Special Fish, a small community website; and created Gossip’s Wet and Cossip’s Cafe, sites for exploring and sharing personal websites.

Simon Browne is a designer and researcher who is trying to understand what it is to make graphic design within the public domain. As such, he works with FLOSS (free/libre open-source software) design and publishing tools and prefers DIWO (Do it With Others) approaches. In conversation with peers and through collective documentation he is figuring things out as he goes, such as how to deal with hybridity, non-linear workflows, instantaneousness and the trickiness of micro-typography in the browser. He graduated in 2020 with a Master in Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where he initiated a bootleg library – a social/ohvsical/diaital collection of texts. Currently, Simon is interested in documents, their distribution and the social conditions of publishing that don’t make it into most colophons. He is a member of the collectives Varia and OSP (Open Source Publishing), and a peer at CC (Creative Crowds).

Typographic Nights programme is kindly supported by the Pictoright Fonds.

Page Not Found is thrilled to announce the opening of “Transplantation Library: Reading Hall,” on Friday, June 28, at 19:00. The presentation showcases a unique collection of publications and printed matter from the library of Transplantation, a Paris-based organisation that has guest-curated this event.

Founded in 2020 by Amandine Nana, Transplantation is an experimental sociocultural initiative and art library dedicated to the intersection of visual arts and cultural education. Their mission is to enhance African diasporic and immigrant imaginaries and archives, particularly within the French-speaking world. Transplantation’s specialised collection includes a diverse array of publications on art, history, critical thought, literature, and media, all from a diasporic, African, and global perspective.

“Transplantation Library: Reading Hall” features a unique selection of rare and often inaccessible printed objects, including exhibition catalogues, artists’ books, graphic objects, photobooks, cultural magazines, fanzines, student memoirs, poetry collections, archives, and academic works. This exhibition is a celebration of Transplantation’s four years of existence and emphasises the contributions of Black women in artistic publishing. 

“Transplantation Library: Reading Hall” immerses the visitors in a rich display of images, texts, and sounds, inviting them to experience the journey of an Afropean art institution in the making. The exhibition underscores the importance of documenting the present and archiving cultural practices and discourses through manifestos.

In conjunction with the exhibition, an educational program featuring two workshops will be offered. These workshops encourage a sensitive, relational, and creative approach to African diasporic archives. The first workshop will take place on July 10 and be led by artist Iriée Zamblé, and the second on July 14, by cultural researcher Fayo Said.

This presentation is one of the instalments of Mal d’Archive—the new public programme of Page Not Found, exploring the space between artistic, archival and publishing practices. This programme will span over several years and encompass events, exhibitions, workshops and residencies.

Artistic direction by Amandine Nana, supported by Mariama Conteh.

Furniture design by Victoire Coustilières under guidance of Ola Vasiljeva, production by Jacob Wallett.

Page Not Found kindly thanks The Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Den Haag as well as Stroom Den Haag for supporting this project.

On Saturday May 11, at 14:00 we are hosting the workshop The Amateur Feminist Library by Lara Dautun.

The amateur feminist library is a space for encounters, revision, and negotiation, where informal research and collective knowledge production strive to enable the making of critical feminist herstories.
Bringing into the physical world a digital archive of feminist periodicals from the 1970’s-1980’s, this workshop invites everyone to become an amateur feminist librarian. Reading, arranging, discussing, rearranging, editing, cutting, pasting and writing together, we’ll discover which resonances they can have today. What can they teach us about collective and collaborative ways of doing? About the emancipatory potentials of publishing practices? About love, labor, friendship, anger and the beauty of shaky drawings and hand-drawn lettering? About the way feminist thoughts and practices evolved? 

« The materials are books, yes, but they are also spaces of encounter; how we are touched by things; how we touch things. I think of feminism as a fragile archive, a body assembled from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility: to take care. » Sara Ahmed, Out and About on feministkilljoys, February 2017.

To register, please sign up by writing to register[at] page-not-found.nl. The workshop is free, however the number of participants is very limited!

This project is made possible thanks to the Makersregeling by the Gemeente Den Haag.

Within the framework of Hoogtij #77, Page Not Found presents a Kino Night with the film and publishing work by Aimée Zito Lema. The work “214322” was developed during the Eye Artist-in-Residence programme, commisioned by the Eye Filmmuseum Collection Centre. Zito Lema investigated the borders of the archive and based on a selection of orphan, amateur and unidentified films, she created a new work (film, sound and photography), questioning concepts of classification, categorization, and selection.

‘214322’ reflects on archives as fragmentary cuttings of a possible world, and explores analogue and digital processes of film making. Images are colored by means of tinting, a coloring technique distinctive of the silent cinema, and technical indications, in the form of punch-hole typography and Kodak edge codes, are made part of the film image in the form of animations. The title of the work ‘214322’ refers to the catalogue entry of the work in the Eye collection database.

The work consists of a 25 minute silent film, a sound piece, and a series of printed film-stills.

Alongside the screening, we are presenting “OUR RAGS MAGAZINE” — a collaborative project by Aimée Zito Lema and Elisa van Joolen that investigates transformative processes, proposing new forms of collective production aimed at the reuse of discarded clothing and textiles. The project and resulting magazine question consumer behaviour and its relationship to the world in which we live. Further expanding the potential of recycled material, Our Rags Magazine is a magazine where the pages not only show clothing, but actually are clothing.

Visual artist Aimée Zito Lema (Amsterdam, 1982) engages in her practice with questions around social memory and the body as an agent of resistance. Zito Lema studied at the University of the Arts (UNA), Buenos Aires, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and holds a Master degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘214322’ at the Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam (2019), 13 Shots, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018), Imprinted Mater, Looeirsgracht 60, Amsterdam (2017) A Series of Gestures, Kunsthall Trondheim (2017). Group exhibitions include: 2 Unlimited, De Apple, Amsterdam (2018), Idiorritmias and Muestreo #1, MACBA, Barcelona (2017), the 11th Gwangju Biennial (2016), Dorothea von Stetten Art Award, Kunst Museum Bonn (2016), Horse Pistes, L’art de la Revolte at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), and New Habits, at Casco, Utrecht (2014).

Photo Credit: spread from the “OUR RAGS MAGAZINE” (2022)

On May 23, we welcome everyone to the GAZA BENEFIT, with a book presentation by Matt Plezier and Zeloot.

This event takes place in the framework of the Analog Festival, organised by the Grafische Werkplaats.

All of the proceeds gathered during the evening will be donated to Ele Elna Elak (“What we own, you own…”)— a small volunteer team in Gaza that helps Gaza’s families with much-needed basic necessities and food.

During the evening you can purchase the book “Shahid” as well as posters by Zeloot and Cengiz Mengüç designed especially for this event. Hand-drawn shirts from Jizz Taco— a queer performer and designer will be available for sale.

“Shahid” is a 300-page collection of social media screenshots in light of shadows, censoring and canceling profiles and posts on Gaza since October 2023.

For the full program of the Analogue Festival, please visit the website.

May 23, 2024, from 19:00 at Page Not Found, free entrance.

Dominique Hurth’s solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” is on view through May 8.

To celebrate the ending of the exhibition, we are pleased to welcome you for the finissage and conversations between Babak Afrassiabi, Ruth Noack and Dominique Hurth addressing taxonomies of collection-making, sites of storage and artistic strategies within post-archives.

The public event takes place on May 8, at 18:00 at Page Not Found

Babak Afrassiabi (b. 1969 in Tehran) is an artist. Since 2004, he has worked in collaboration with Nasrin Tabatabai to produce Pages, a bilingual (Farsi/English) magazine. This has now expanded into many projects and exhibitions, defined mostly by their combinations of different media and materials, often brought together as a result of long-term research. Linking these works is an attempt to articulate the undecidable space between art and its historical conditions.The recurring question, especially in more recent works, has related to the technological and material place of the archive in defining this juncture between politics, history, and the practice of art.

Ruth Noack (b. 1964, Germany) is an author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition maker since the 1990s, trained as a visual artist and art historian. Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007). Exhibitions include Scenes of a Theory (1995), Things We Don’t Understand (2000), The Government (2005) (with Roger M.Buergel), a solo show of Ines Doujak’s work (2012), and Notes on Crisis, Currency and Consumption (2015). Ruth Noack has contributed to “Stutters” publication by Dominique Hurth.

Dominique Hurth (b. 1985, France) is a visual artist and publisher working with sculpture and installation, and within the relationship between sculptural and printed matter. Her works develop by means of archival research, journalistic investigation, writing, and material experiments, and it is by way of editing that the installation operates in the exhibition space. The strategy of replicating follows a reading of images, where the outcome is often concentrated in the relationship between sculptural work and printed matter. Hurth frequently publishes in the format of artist editions and pamphlets. Her editions often emerge from within her installations yet are not per se illustrating the works nor documenting them. In recent years Hurth investigated the physical manifestation and the performativity of a book.

Image: installation view of “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” by Dominique Hurth. Courtesy of the artist and Page Not Found. Photo by Reinier de Wall.

We’re thrilled to announce that Page Not Found is back for the third time at Rewire festival’s context program! Join us for an intimate exploration of soundscapes curated by the amazing Katía Truijen, as we dive deep into the essence of listening and its relationship with time and territories. Before and between sessions, immerse yourself in the world of Norient + Corecore. Our events are free, so grab your spot early! Here’s our program in full:

Friday 5 April: Environmental Listening in Delhi, conversation/listening session, 13:00 – 14:00, with Suvani Suri and Hannes Liechti.

Pulsating Apotropaic Kisses, conversation, 14:30 – 15:30, with Avita Maheen, Nandita Kumar and Pinky Htut Aung.

Corecore deep fried listening session, talk and listening session, 16:00 – 17:00, with Callum Dean, Tjobo Kho and Jan-Pieter ‘t Hart.

Saturday 6 April: 21 Ingredients, listening session, 12:00 – 13:15, by Andrius Arutiunian and Giada Dalla Bontà.

Listening to the voices from the roof of the world, listening session, 14:00 – 15:00, by Nischal Khadka.

Sounding a Livable Life, lecture / reading, 16:00 – 17:00, by Brandon LaBelle.

Sunday 7 April: Sounding a Livable Life, lecture / reading, 12:00 – 13:00, by Brandon LaBelle.

Blurred Waters, listening session and talk, 14:00 – 15:00, by EOM ( Kristoffer Kjaerskov). Curated by Page Not Found!

Khamoosh, listening session, 16:00 – 17:00, by Golnoosh Heshmati, introduced by Radna Rumping.

We welcome you to Blurred waters: ambient explorations through river landscapes, listening session and talk with EOM (Kristoffer Kjærskov). Page not Found invited Kristoffer Kjærskov to contribute to the program of the Rewire festival.

Kristoffer Kjærskov (* 1984, Denmark) is a sound and visual artist. His practice intertwines investigations between locations and materialities, where found and processed fragments create bridges between experiences and are used as elements in new collages and assemblages. Through his sound project Economy Of Meaning (EOM), he works in a genre-bending field that explores techniques, moods and formats. In 2023, his LP album Site Seeing was released on the London-based label Calling Cards. The release is based on recordings from the landscape around Sharjah (UAE), where he was an artist-in-residence at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2021. Currently, Kjærskov is a fellow at the Danish Institute in Rome, where he is working on a sound project centered around the Tiber River.

In April, he will launch an artist book at the exhibition platform O-Overgaden in Copenhagen. Previously, Kjærskov has performed his music live at Iklectik Art Lab (London), Mayhem (Copenhagen), PAS (Berlin), Click Festival (Helsingør, DK), WestGermany (Berlin) and News Of the World Gallery (London, UK). His visual art has recently been exhibited at SIMIAN (Copenhagen) and Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence).

For the listening session at Page Not Found Kristoffer will be presenting his research centred around object oriented sound and ambient layers, and will perform pieces from his current projects. 

The event is free of charge, on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Unfortunately, due to Rasmus’ broken knee, the launch of The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends is postponed to a later date. Stay tuned for updates!

To celebrate Rasmus Myrup’s exhibition at our dear and near 1646, we are happy to invite you to discover his latest publication, in company of its prolific designer Sabo Day.

In The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology. Making their first appearance as a series of sculptures by Myrup, the characters from this Bestiary are all seen through the lens of a Seeress – The Völva. She knows everything her folkloric friends have been through and will endure in the future. It’s a heavy burden: the workaholism of The Bog Lady, failed attempts by The Elven Girls to end the Patriarchy, Freya’s sob story, the sexual frustrations of The Stream Man and Hild’s inability to stop the war between her lover and her dad. In Myrup’s world, they have befriended each other across multiple spheres of fiction – if they don’t know each other, they at least know of each other.

Whether they are embodiments of natural elements, misunderstood misses of myth or corporeal manifestations of counter-culture, these figures have all lived outside the realm of human civilization – but just like us, they have a knack for being unable to see the obvious ways they could fix their flaws and save themselves. The Völva’s lips runneth over with scaldingly hot takes and reads her friends probably can’t handle – so she writes them down. To clear the visions from her retina, she draws them. She is not a tattletale, she lets destiny run its course – but in one book she unleashes her pent-up load of sticky secrets: The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends.

We welcome you on 21 March, 19:00. Free entrance.